Tag Archive > Discrimination

Tanya Plibersek – Replied

THIS IS NOT ABOUT TELSTRA

Point to ponder:  
Maybe the Government doesn’t want to change the law to grant homosexual people equal discrimination rights, because if we were able to make complaints under any discrimination category (rather than just employment), we could then complain to the Australian Human Rights Commision that our human rights have been [...]

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Thanks Joe, you’re my ray of sunshine

My complaint is not with Telstra, or their stupid Ad.
My complaint is with HREOC for not treating sexual preference discrimination the same as all other types. 
Joe from the Telegraph took my words out of context and misrepresented what I said.
I was contacted by Joe at the Daily Telegraph about my blog. How he found it [...]

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Humanrights.gov.au – Response

They are fast!
This is a response to a complaint I lodged with www.humanrights.gov.au -
You can view my initial complaint here
Karen from www.humanrights.gov.au responded, quickly I might add.
Sadly her response is a palm off. Not her fault, but still…
Here it is:

Dear Andrew
 
The laws we administer only allow us to deal with complaints on the basis of [...]

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Homophobic Telstra Advertisement

The Government won’t assist us.
I woke up this morning and logged in to www.smh.com.au to read the news. Telstra pays a fortune to advertise on fairfax, and in their most recent campaign for Next Gen Mobile coverage they try to be funny in a homophobic and utterly stupid way.
Here is the ad (click the speaker [...]

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